Yesterday, I blogged about Best Buy’s like-for-likes, down nearly 15% in the Entertainment Software and Hardware. Regular reader Christian Hunt thought I might have jumped ahead of myself in my conclusions about what this result about the...

Best Buy has just reported its results for the year ended 26 February 2011. Revenue was down a fraction to $16.25bn. But the entry which caught my eye was this one, comparing sales of Entertainment Hardware and...

I have spent the last few days genuinely puzzled over a story that UK retailers are threatening to “demand that publishers remove Steam from their games, or they will not sell them in any form.” MCV broke...

MCV today reports that CHIPS has gone bust, with the loss of 29 jobs at head office and at its wholly owned stores. The company is at pains to point out that its franchise stores are not...

It’s not exactly news that WHSmith is no longer going to support games. It’s been pulling out since early 2009 and completed its retreat earlier this year. But I was in a branch of WHSmith recently and...

I’ve been flat out all year on consultancy projects (which is great – do contact me via nicholas at gamesbrief.com if you want to discuss how I can help you with self-publishing or building a long term...